{"id":14273,"date":"2012-11-11T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/11\/11\/14273.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:04:58","slug":"veterans-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/11\/11\/veterans-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote><p><strong>Glory of Women<\/strong>, by Siegfried Sassoon<p>You love us when we&#8217;re heroes, home on leave,<br>Or wounded in a mentionable place.<br>You worship decorations; you believe<br>That chivalry redeems the war&#8217;s disgrace.<br>You make us shells. You listen with delight,<br>By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled.<br>You crown our distant ardours while we fight,<br>And mourn our laurelled memories when we&#8217;re killed.<br>You can&#8217;t believe that British troops &#8216;retire&#8217;<br>When hell&#8217;s last horror breaks them, and they run,<br>Trampling the terrible corpses&#8212;blind with blood.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O German mother dreaming by the fire,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While you are knitting socks to send your son<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His face is trodden deeper in the mud.\n<p>from <cite>Counter-Attack and Other Poems<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger returns to Siegfried Sassoon, because this one made me cry again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16753,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions\/16753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}